Vermont · Nonprofit
HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION
HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Vermont) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,004,327 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($258,600). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Hubbard Brook Research Foundation does
Mission
To promote the undertanding and stewardship of ecosystems through scientific research , long term monitoring and education and to develop new initiatives linking ecosystem science and public policy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation supports scientists and students, participating in the hubbard brook ecosystem study by providing facilities and other infrastructure, including affordable housing, laboratories, storage space, a classroom and internet accessibility. Some of our employees provide direct technical assistance to researchers on a contractual basis.
$196,638 spent$57,103 earned by the program25% of program spendingPublic engagement programs at hubbard brook include an environmental literacy program with school outreach and curriculum development focused on data inquiry activities; a communications training and public outreach program for undergraduate and graduate environmental students that serves over 50 students per year from all over the us and internationally; the foundation also provides tours of the hubbard brook experimental forest for college students, high school groups and educators,international groups and other members of the public.
$239,816 spent31% of program spendingThe foundation is an interface organization spanning the boundaries between science and society. In its role as an interface or boundary-spanning organization, the foundation convenes "hubbard brook roundtables" using techniques of facilitated dialogue to support productive, multi-directional engagement among scientists, practitioners, educators and other stakeholders; produces science links synthesis products to link hubbard brook research to relevant stakeholder and policy issues and decisions.
$338,997 spent$40,000 earned by the program44% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $775,451.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.9M to $2.1M (+14%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 47% · 2018 66% · 2019 71% · 2020 57% · 2021 46% · 2022 35% · 2023 41% · 2024 44% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Anthea Lavallee
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $21k → $252k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
48% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 54% · 2019 71% · 2020 36% · 2021 35% · 2022 26% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
55% of HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $453k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.
- National Science Foundation$1.5M
- Department of Agriculture$628k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Vermont) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,004,327 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($258,600). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,004,327 in grants to HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $258,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing